In September, I facilitated a “Project and Campaign Management” training session for the Professional Marketing Forum (Details of future courses: http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) While the focus was on understanding the formal project management processes and how they apply in business development and marketing projects, we also considered the issues in terms of Read More
At the recent Leeds presentation of the “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” training workshop we discussed leading a surveyor’s practice - leadership in property. Some of the leadership models discussed were considered helpful. We tackled a number of common issues when leading a surveyors’ practice and these are Read More
Managing teams and virtual teams was the topic generating most interest at a recent Future Marketing Manager course (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/). In professional service firms, there are all manner of temporary campaign groups, cross-departmental teams to support sector based initiatives and virtual teams for major firm-wide projects. Sometimes the team members Read More
I’ve written about motivation before. But last week – at one of MBL’s “Managing and Marketing a Profitable Surveyor’s Practice” - I was asked to produce a blog that pulled together some of the many ideas for motivating people. They apply to property folk as much as others. Accept that Read More
People management in a property partnership is one of the topics addressed in the “Managing and marketing a profitable property partnership” training session I deliver periodically for MBL seminars https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline?progid=5865&AddSeminarToBasket=1027490 The course is based on the book “Growing your property partnership” http://kimtasso.com/publications/growing-your-property-partnership/. At each session, I ask what delegates would Read More
